A small treatise

A small treatise

PREFACE:
the following statements
are a mud of nerve cells,
kept together by silence.

Silence is a hysteria of loneliness
which generates and accumulates:
time products,
kinetic energies,
chain reactions of gestures.
Dreams, incorporated into resignation
as if into a programme of planned boredom,
are the limbs of this silence;
or, if you prefer,
the blind organelles of silence
which work gropingly
inside its cytoplasmatic fluid.
Silence may also be
the one-string cell
of a scared feeling,
of a coagulated love,
of an unstitched glove:
in that case
it turns loneliness
into the ceremonious rays
of a sickness which advances
majestically
with a uniformly accelerated motion.
(An acceleration by fits and starts is tallied
only when
an effervescent desperation,
proceeding in seismic bursts,
intervenes in order to divert
the course of the acceleration itself).
To conclude,
development of sickness
may excrete a void
(owning, more or less,
the features of death)
or put out by gemmation
that strange kind of life
identified as indifference;
in passing the latter,
as it emerged from in-depth suppositions,
is a chiasm of fear and hate.

Afterword:
the foregoing statements
are a mud of nerve cells,
kept together by silence.
Every reference
to real feelings and/or facts
is purely premeditated
in silence.

PIETRO PÀNCAMO is a poet, short-story writer and critic, to whom the Italian Swiss national radio devoted, in 2012, an episode of the transmission Poemondo. His works have appeared in several periodicals, including «IF. Insolito & Fantastico» (one of the most influential Italian magazines of Fantasy and Science Fiction), «Gradiva» (a review edited twice a year in New York by the highly respected man of letters Luigi Fontanella), the Turin newspaper «La Stampa», «Poesia» (the poetry blog of the TV channel “RAI News”), the webportal «Poeti e poetastri» (belonging to the literary agency “Perroni&Morli Studio”, which often collaborates with the publishing house Bompiani) and the electronic version of the «Corriere Fiorentino» («Corriere della Sera»’s Florence edition). Some of his texts in verse were selected for Poetando. L’uomo della notte (an anthology edited by the Italian leading journalist Maurizio Costanzo and printed in 2009 by Aliberti editore).